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The genus Setaria is in the family Poaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Setaria

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Setaria acromelaena (Hochst.) T.Durand & Schinz	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria alonsoi Pensiero & A.M.Anton	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria apiculata (Scribn. & Merr.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria appendiculata (Hack.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria arizonica Rominger	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria atrata Hack. ex Engl.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria australiensis (Scribn. & Merr.) Vickery	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria austrocaledonica (Balansa) A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria barbata (Lam.) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria barbinodis R.A.W.Herrm.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria bathiei A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria cernua Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria chondrachne (Steud.) Honda	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria clivalis (Ridl.) Veldkamp	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria cordobensis R.A.W.Herrm.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria corrugata (Elliott) Schult.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria decipiens K.F. Schimp. ex Nyman	Accepted		TRO
Setaria dielsii R.A.W.Herrm.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria elementii (Domin) R.D. Webster	Accepted		TRO
Setaria faberi R.A.W.Herrm.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria fiebrigii R.A.W.Herrm.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria finita Launert	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria forbesiana (Nees ex Steud.) Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria globulifera (Steud.) Griseb.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria gracillima Hook.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria grandis Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria grisebachii E.Fourn.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria guizhouensis S.L.Chen & G.Y.Sheng	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria hassleri Hack.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria homonyma (Steud.) Chiov.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria humbertiana A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria hunzikeri Anton	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria incrassata (Hochst.) Hack.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria intermedia Roem. & Schult.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria italica (L.) P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria jaffrei Morat	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria kagerensis Mez	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria lachnea (Nees) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria latifolia (Scribn.) R.A.W.Herrm.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria leucopila (Scribn. & Merr.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria liebmannii E.Fourn.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria limensis Tovar	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria lindenbergiana (Nees) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria longipila E.Fourn.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria longiseta P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria macrosperma (Scribn. & Merr.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria macrostachya Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria madecassa A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria magna Griseb.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria megaphylla (Steud.) T.Durand & Schinz	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria mendocina Phil.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria mildbraedii C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria montana Reeder	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria nepalense (Spreng.) Müll. Stuttg.	Accepted		TRO
Setaria nicorae Pensiero	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria nigrirostris (Nees) T.Durand & Schinz	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria oblongata (Griseb.) Parodi	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria obscura de Wit	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria oplismenoides R.A.W.Herrm.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria orthosticha K.Schum. ex R.A.W.Herrm.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria palmeri Henrard	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria palmifolia (J.Koenig) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria pampeana Parodi ex Nicora	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria paraguayensis Pensiero	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria parodii Nicora	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) M.Kerguelen	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria paspalidioides Vickery	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria paucifolia (Morong) Lindm.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria perrieri A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria petiolata Stapf & C.E.Hubb.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria pflanzii Pensiero	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria plicata (Lam.) T.Cooke	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria poiretiana (Schult.) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria pseudaristata (Peter) Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria pumila (Poir.) Roem. & Schult.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria queenslandica Domin	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria restioidea (Franch.) Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria rigida Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria roemeri Jansen	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria rosengurttii Nicora	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria sagittifolia (A.Rich.) Walp.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria scabrifolia (Nees) Kunth	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria scandens Schrad.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria scheelei (Steud.) Hitchc.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria scottii (Hack.) A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria seriata Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria setosa (Sw.) P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria speciosa (A. Braun) Kuhlm.	Accepted		TRO
Setaria sphacelata (Schumach.) Stapf & C.E.Hubb. ex Moss	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria stolonifera Boldrini	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria submacrostachya Luces	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria sulcata Raddi	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria surgens Stapf	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria tenacissima Schrad.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria tenax (Rich.) Desv.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria texana Emery	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria vaginata Spreng.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria vatkeana K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria verticillata (L.) P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria villosissima (Scribn. & Merr.) K.Schum.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria viridis (L.) P.Beauv.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria vulpiseta (Lam.) Roem. & Schult.	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria welwitschii Rendle	Accepted		WCSP
Setaria yunnanensis Keng f. & K.D.Yu	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 498 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Setaria. Of these 104 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 280 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Setaria. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 498 species names for the genus Setaria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	104	20.9%
◕	Synonym	357	71.7%
◕	Unplaced	21	4.2%
◕	Unassessed	16	3.2%

All names

The status of the 778 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Setaria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	124	15.9%
◕	Synonym	613	78.8%
◕	Unplaced	21	2.7%
◕	Unassessed	20	2.6%

Of these names,

• 24 are recorded as invalid
• 20 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 498 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Setaria, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	99	328	0	0	427	85.7%
	Medium confidence	3	27	0	0	30	6.0%
	Low confidence	2	2	21	16	41	8.2%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Setaria, are as follows: